INDIAN AND EUROPEAN EMIGRANTS

Mr. M, K, Gandhi, in moving the Resolution on India and the Colonies at the Bombay Congress of 1915, said :

Mr, President and Friends, the Resolution thab stands in my name reads thus :

" The Congress regrets thab r,he existing laws affect- ing Indians in South Africa and Canada have nob, in suite of fche liberal and irnosrialistro declarations "of Colonial statesmen, bee:i justly and equitably adminis- tered, and this Congress bruq'ia that bhs Self^Gaverning Colooiea will extend to the Indian emigrants equal rights wifch European emigrants and that the Imperial Govern- ment will use all possible means to secure the rights whioh have been hitherto unjustly withheld from them, thus causing widespread dissatisfaction and discontent}."

Friends, It is au irony of fate than whilsb this vasb assembly will be regretting the hostile attidude that* has been adopted by the Self- Governing Colonies, a Cott;tin- genb of your countrymen formed in South Africa will be nearing the theatre of war in order t?o help the siok and the wounded, and I am in possession of facts in connec- tion with tibia Contingent formed in South Africa which shows that it is composed of the middle classes whioh, in accordance with the Times of India, are going bo form the future self-governing nation. Those men are drawn from ax indentured Indians and their children, from the petty hawkers, the boilers, the traders, and yet the Colo- nies do nob consider ib necessary to alter their attitudes not do I see the logic in altering their policy. Id is . the.

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